No. 194 The Great Middle Road Robbery I

The promulgation of the "Sun Wen Yue Fei Declaration" and the "Joint Statement of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party" immediately caused the greatest shock in the whole of China. If in the past few years, the most powerful weapons of Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang in their struggle against the Beiyang government were the National Assembly and the Provisional Constitution. So now, Sun Yat-sen has completely thrown away the last camouflage and completely walked to the line of military and politics! If it is said that the previous "autonomy and peaceful reunification of the provinces" was the last glimmer of hope for democratic constitutionalism in China's middle and upper classes, or in other words, the "scholars" class. Now, their hopes have completely turned into disappointment, and a sense of abandonment and betrayal. Opposition to the cooperation between the Nationalist Government and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party also grew loud all at once. The gentry of the whole of China seemed to have rallied around the Beiyang government overnight, ready to flood the Nationalist government in Fujian and Guangdong with articles or spittle.

In fact, historically, when Sun Yat-sen was preparing to cooperate with the GCD and Soviet Russia, the mainstream of Chinese society was also a voice of opposition, and even within the Kuomintang, there were more opponents than supporters. On this plane, things are a little different.

Originally, those who opposed the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in history, such as Xie Zhi, Zou Lu, Hu Hanmin, and others, probably understood the actual situation of "Fujian's implementation of GCISM" and felt that those methods were completely within the acceptable range of them, and they also saw the benefits brought by the cooperation between the two parties, so they did not openly speak out against Sun Yat-sen.

But others, more powerful figures in the Kuomintang or in the southwest, at this time raised the banner of opposition to Sun Yat-sen. Chen Jiongming, who was negotiating with Liang Qichao in Shanghai, resolutely issued a telegram to break with the Kuomintang on the day he saw these two statements. It was announced that the China Zhi Gong Party would be established with the goal of promoting local autonomy and implementing democratic constitutional government. And soon got the response and joining of powerful factions such as Xiong Kewu, the overseer of Sichuan, Tang Jiyao, the overseer of Yunnan, Liu Shixian, the overseer of Guizhou, and Lu Rongting, the envoy of the two Guangxi patrols.

The Beijing government also lost no time in extending an olive branch to these original oppositionists, appointing Tang Jiyao as the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan patrol envoy, and giving Chen Jiongming an empty Guangdong overseer, and returning the Fujian overseer to Sa Zhenbing, who left Mawei and went north after the merger of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. It can be regarded as the implementation of the Fujian people to govern Fujian.

As for the military crusade, it is already a lack of preparation. And this east wind is the loan of the syndicate of foreign powers. After the Beiyang government announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia and tore up the "Sino-Russian New Testament". The British minister, Eston, stayed at the Consulate General in Tientsin, and negotiated with the senior officials of HSBC and McQuarie Bank about the mortgage of the Beijing-Hankou Railway and the commercial tax of Beijing and Tianjin. It's just that Zhang Luo has been talking for a while, and there is no follow-up.

It turned out that as soon as the Nationalist Government co-founded by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was put on the throne, it immediately issued a telegram. It is declared that any unequal treaties and loan contracts signed between the Beiyang government and the imperialist countries in the future will be null and void! The National Government will not recognize it, nor will it be responsible for repayment! And the British banks were "private institutions", and their big offices were for the shareholders, not for the Imperial government! Of course, they have to think twice about this kind of deal, which is not good enough to borrow but not repay.

The banks of the British refused to lend money, and the Beiyang government naturally did not have the money to pay the troops below in full, and those Beiyang soldiers were of course unwilling to fight if they could not get money.

The Kuomintang and the Communist Party on the other side did not seem to have the intention of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains for a while. Instead, they are busy sorting out their internal affairs.

The first is to form a government, and Chen Duxiu of China G became the prime minister of the national government as he wished! The vice premier is Xie Zhi of the Kuomintang. Li Dazhao did not return to Beijing after Chang Ruiqing's stay. Instead, he stayed in Guangdong and became the Minister of Labor of the Nationalist Government, and it seems that he will not be killed by Zhang Yushuai as in history. Shao Piaoping, a famous journalist in history, also joined the Nationalist Government and served as Minister of Propaganda.

As for Comrade Mao Zd, because of Chang Ruiqing's opposition, he did not become the peasant minister of the national government as he wished. However, it has taken on a more important mission -- party building! Chen Duxiu, who became the prime minister, naturally had a lot of opportunities. I don't have the energy to take care of party affairs anymore. This burden falls on the shoulders of Mao Zd, who is the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the China G, and it is estimated that it will not be long before the position of chairman of the Central G Party will be his! While being in charge of party affairs, Mao ZD also had to take care of the work of the coal miners' uprising in Anyuan, and after the establishment of the Nationalist Government, he was almost running at both ends of Guangzhou and Anyuan. It's busy.

The Minister of Peasants of the Nationalist Government and Chairman of the China Fishery and Peasants' Association appointed Pan Yucheng, who, by the way, is now also an honorable Chinese GCD! Well, there is nothing strange about this kind of thing in the eyes of our Chang Da revolutionary, he has seen it much in later generations!

Zhang Junmao, another member of Chang Ruiqing's civil official system, served as the governor of Fujian, but he did not join the Central G, so he can be regarded as a non-party person.

As for the other ministers of the Nationalist Government and the governor of Guangdong, they were all appointed by figures from the Kuomintang side, among them the governor of Guangdong Province was Hu Hanmin, the minister of finance was Liao Zhongkai, the minister of education was Zou Lu, the minister of industry and commerce was Deng Zeru, and the minister of communications was also a veteran of the Kuomintang, Shi Ying.

In addition to the formation of the National Government, another major event of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is the formation of the National Revolutionary Army! This army was formed on the basis of the original Protector Army and the Fujian Army. The supreme command body is the Revolutionary Military Committee, with a total of ten members, namely Sun Yat-sen, Chang Ruiqing, Chen Duxiu, Xu Chongzhi, Wang Yaqiao, Jiang Jshi, Hu Hanmin, Bai Chongxi, Zhu Peide, and Zhou Elai, who is carrying a huge amount of money on the way back to China!

Chang Ruiqing's current position is Vice Chairman of the Military Commission and Minister of the Army, as well as the principal of the Central Military Academy! And the site of this Central Military Academy is just outside Guangzhou, in the school building of the former Whampoa Army Primary School on Changzhou Island, which is almost the historical Whampoa Military Academy! In addition, the director and deputy director of the General Staff Department, another important department of the Military Commission, were appointed by Xu Chongzhi and Bai Chongxi.

At noon that day, Jiang Jshi walked quickly into the office of the chief of Chang Ruiqing in the War Department. During this period of time, several of them are probably the hardest working people in China! The War Department is mainly responsible for military and political matters related to the expansion of the army. The task of the General Staff is to train and formulate operational plans for the greatly expanded troops. The National Revolutionary Army's current general operational thinking was formulated by Chang Ruiqing, and it is not some kind of elite doctrine, nor is it any firepower to win, it is a crowd tactic!

We are ready to give full play to the advantages of the Nationalist Government in popular mobilization and organization, to form a revolutionary army of unprecedented scale, and to overwhelm our opponents by relying on the strength of the people! However, to really implement the crowd tactics, it is much more complicated than imagined. This involves the establishment of a system of national mobilization. A large number of rack units have been established, tens of thousands of officers and non-commissioned officers have been recruited and trained, as well as the production, procurement and storage of a large number of weapons and equipment and various military supplies. And Chang Ruiqing is the actual manager of this huge revolutionary army. The weight of responsibility and pressure is unprecedented.

Fortunately, the military composition of the Kuomintang system is much purer than in history, and the troops of the former French Protector Army do not have many elements of warlord troops. Moreover, the Kuomintang generals, headed by Xu Chongzhi, Jiang Jshi, and Zhu Peide, were also aware of the current crisis, but they were able to unite with Chang Ruiqing sincerely, and they also put their main thoughts on army building. Therefore, the construction of the entire National Revolutionary Army is progressing step by step.

Chang Ruiqing was looking at a report on the "Yunnan-Guizhou Alliance" personally sent by Ren Yijiang, director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of War, when he heard Jiang Jshi's Ningbo official voice shouting at the door: "Niang Xipi! These Guangxi Yankees really don't know the times! ”

Chang Ruiqing shook his head and stood up with a wry smile, just in time to see Jiang Jishi walk in the door with a gloomy face. Chang Ruiqing nodded at him slightly: "What's wrong?" The lobbyists sent to Guangxi have all been brought back? ”

Jiang Jishi pulled a chair and sat opposite Chang Ruiqing, picked up Wen Jiàn on the desk, glanced at it slightly, and sneered: "No wonder these Guangxi monkeys are so tough, they dare to have Tang Jiyao, a careerist, backing them up!" Yaoru. Let's see if we should send troops to the west now to eliminate the scourges of Lu Rongting and Tan Haoming, and by the way, we should also establish our prestige, so that those people in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan can see the power of our National Revolutionary Army? ”

Chang Ruiqing only smiled noncommittally at Jiang Jishi's words. He still has a full understanding of the position he is in. His prestige in the National Revolutionary Army cannot be compared with that in the Fujian Army. The Fujian Army is a private army established by itself, while the National Revolutionary Army is co-founded with Sun Yat-sen. Therefore, his first task at the moment is to establish his prestige, and the best way for a military to establish his prestige is to win the battle!

From this point of view, marching into Guangxi is really an opportunity to establish prestige, but the premise must be a complete victory! If you lose the battle. His vice-chairman of the military council may be the end of it, right? And it is really not so easy to ensure victory, although in history, Chen Jiongming's 25,000 Cantonese army did not take much effort to defeat the Gui army, which is known as 100,000 people. But that was based on a large number of defections from the main forces of the Gui army, and now the representatives sent by the Nationalist Government to lobby the Gui army have all come back with a nose in the dust.

And now the Beiyang side is also planning to march south, and the three divisions of their participating army and Feng Yuxiang's 16th mixed brigade have been stationed in Hunan! If we add the 8th Division, which was already in Hunan, the 3rd and 7th Divisions that were withdrawn to Hubei, and the 12th Division in Jiangxi, Beiyang can now mobilize troops to attack Guangdong at any time, and the Central Army alone has as many as seven divisions and a mixed brigade! Although Beiyang's military salaries are now unsettled, it should not be able to fight a big war, but who can guarantee that the Beijing government will definitely not be able to raise money?

In addition, this time the four armies of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou seem to have been twisted into a rope, if they lead their troops to attack Guangxi, the Sichuan army will not say, the second army of Yunnan and Guizhou will inevitably come to the aid of Guangxi, and the current Yunnan army is still a strong force!

All the above reasons are combined, and our Chang Da military strategist will inevitably have to act cautiously, just when he is pondering how to find an excuse to postpone the campaign against Guangxi. I heard Jiang Jshi's Ningbo official voice ring again.

"Yaoru, I just came back from Mr.'s Chairman's Mansion, and Mr. is furious about Guangxi's affairs! Ten ** has already moved the mind of crusading against Guangxi"

As for Lao Jiang's ability to figure out Sun Yat-sen's thoughts, the evaluation in Chang Ruiqing's mind is equivalent to the roundworm in Sun Yat-sen's stomach! Since sending troops to Guangxi is his old man's "wish", Chang Ruiqing can only obey, anyway, this great revolutionary has no more years to live. Chang Ruiqing doesn't plan to be Chen Jiongming's second.

Thinking of this, Chang Ruiqing personally poured Jiang Jishi a cup of tea and slowly discussed with him about sending troops to Guangxi.

The current National Revolutionary Army has built a big frame, with the number of 8 armies and 24 divisions! However, all the divisions were understaffed, with fewer than 5,000 men, and there was a shortage of officers and soldiers, and they were undertrained. The artillery equipment is even more pitiful, and all division-level units do not have artillery directly under them, and only one artillery battalion equipped with eight 75mm field guns is in the unit directly under the army. In addition, there was an artillery division directly under the Military Commission. Equipped with 72 Japanese mountain guns of 75mm caliber, Cai Zhongwat of Chang Ruiqing System served as the division commander.

However, this kind of strength is more than enough to deal with the Gui army that has been expanded from the patrol battalion in Lu Rongting's hands, even if Tang Jiyao and Liu Shixian send reinforcements. It should be able to deal with it. The only trouble is the main force of the Beiyang Army stationed in Lianghu, will they watch the main force of the National Revolutionary Army march west to Guangxi?

Jiang Jshi sat on the chair and lowered his head to take a sip of tea. When he raised his head and was about to say something, he heard the voice of a male duck outside the door, it was Meng Li, the chief of staff of the Red Brigade, who had arrived. This red brigade is a relatively special existence in the system of the Nationalist Government, and it has not yet been merged into the system of the Intelligence Bureau of the War Department, which is a lawless organization, and even if Chang Ruiqing is willing to let go, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government will not dare to accept it, and if it does, will it really recruit the imperialist intervention army to Guangzhou? So, this organization hangs there for no reason. Under the direct command of Chang Ruiqing. As for the funds for the activities of the Red Brigade, they came from the shares of the Bank of China and the China ** Workers - these assets were not counted in the name of the Fujian Army and the Fujian Provincial Government, but were held by a special foundation, which was also directly controlled by Chang Ruiqing!

After Meng Li walked into the office, he nodded slightly at Chang Ruiqing and Jiang Jishi, and then quietly found a chair to sit down. Jiang Jishi smiled a little embarrassedly. You have to get up and take your leave. Chang Ruiqing waved his hand: "Brother Kai-shek, let's listen together." As he spoke, he glanced at Meng Li.

Meng Li took out a copy of Wen Jiàn from the leather bag he was carrying, handed it to Chang Ruiqing, and said in a low voice: "Yaogong, it's news from Manchuria, next Monday a train loaded with 1,200 tons of ammunition and a small number of firearms will depart from Vladivostok. Sail through the Eastern Railway to Chita in Russia to meet the White Army there. It is reported that these ammunition are part of the arms purchased by Belarus from Japan! Shall we?"

Jiang Jshi was stunned when he heard this, he didn't know much about the layout of the Red Brigade in Manchuria, and he didn't know the agreement between Chang Ruiqing and Soviet Russia in this regard, so he hurriedly asked Chang Ruiqing: "Yaoru, what's going on?" We also have people on the northeast side? ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded, and a vague smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Brother Kai-shek, you can also take a look at this." As he spoke, he handed over the text in his hand: "On the Manchurian side, Wu Yuxun and Guo Maochen are presiding, recruiting some bandits, and some people from the Korean Liberation Society have also joined us, and the total strength at the moment is about 1,500, and there are about 1,000 long and short guns." It's not necessarily enough to hit a county seat, but it's probably not that difficult to hijack a train, right? I just don't know if the hijacking of the train will cause any more trouble for our Beijing government? ”

"Big trouble?" Jiang Jishi was stunned, and with a roll of his eyes, he understood what Chang Ruiqing meant. He smiled and waved his hand: "There will definitely be trouble in hijacking an arms train, but it will not cause chaos in the Beiyang government." After all, the Russians are now a phoenix that has lost their hair, and Britain, the United States and France will not take care of them for a while, and the Japanese arms should have been collected when they arrived in Vladivostok, and it has little to do with them if they are robbed on the Chinese ground. If Brother Yaoru wants to make things bigger and make the Beiyang government anxious and tired to deal with it, it is best to rob people! Especially the Anglo-American-French expatriates, if they can kidnap dozens of them, they may be able to make Beiyang chaotic, and my brother can rest assured that he can boldly lead the troops to Pingguangxi! ”

With a snap, Chang Ruiqing slapped the table and shouted loudly: "It's still Brother Kai-shek's method, kidnapping hostages!" He beckoned at Meng Li: "During this time, all countries are evacuating overseas Chinese from Russia, you ask the Manchurian side to inquire whether there is a withdrawal to Vladivostok via the Middle East Road, and you must find a way to take dozens of hostages, and ask Europe and the United States to find the right time to take hostages and take arms together!" Come to the Middle Road Heist! ”

At this time, Chang Ruiqing already remembered the Lincheng train robbery that happened in history in 1923! Wasn't it because more than 20 foreign hostages were kidnapped by bandits in Shandong, and as a result, there was a big mess, and the Beiyang government stopped a priority in its hands and went all out to solve the robbery......

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